Jeremy Renner is getting candid about the salary for a potential follow-up to Marvel’s Hawkeye. 

In an excerpt posted to TikTok on Thursday, May 1, from an interview that Renner gave to the High Performance app, the actor claimed he was offered “half” of his salary from the first season of the Disney+ series in which he starred as the titular character. 

“They asked me to do season 2, and they offered me half the money,” the Mayor of Kingstown star, 54, said. “I’m like, ‘It’s going to take me twice the amount of work for half the amount of money, and eight months of my time, essentially, to do it for half the amount.’ ”

Hawkeye, starring Renner as his Avengers character Clint Barton and Hailee Steinfeld as Kate Bishop, aired in 2021 to positive reviews from Marvel Cinematic Universe fans and critics alike. A follow-up season has remained unconfirmed. 

One reason the Disney “penny pinchers” may have offered him less money, joked Renner in the clip, was his near-fatal snowmobile accident on New Years Day 2023. “I’m like, ‘I’m sorry? Why? Did you think I’m only half the Jeremy because I got ran over? Maybe that’s why you want to pay me half of what I made on the first season,’” he quipped. 

“I told them to go fly a kite,” added Renner of the “insult offer.” Indicating he’d “still love” to return to play Hawkeye onscreen, he said, “It’s all disheartening that that didn’t happen, but that’s fine. I’m happy to let that go, because my body’s probably thanking me, time and time again, that I’m not doing it right now.”

Renner made headlines after being nearly crushed to death in a driveway near his Lake Tahoe home by his 14,000-pound Snowcat plow, resulting in more than 35 broken bones, multiple titanium replacements and a grueling rehabilitation journey. In his memoir My Next Breath, released April 29, the Oscar nominee detailed the January 2023 experience in excruciating detail. 

“Writing about it has been very emotionally cathartic to have to go word by word through it all again,” Renner told PEOPLE of the book. “I don't not talk about it. It's part of my life every day, and it's always a wonderful reminder of the strength of the human spirit and how fragile the body is and how badass it is at recovery.”

Among Renner’s upcoming projects is Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. His Paramount+ drama Mayor of Kingstown has aired three seasons and been renewed for a fourth.